Sunan an-Nasa'i 847
A stern warning against failing to pray in congregation
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أَخْبَرَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ زَائِدَةَ بْنِ قُدَامَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا السَّائِبُ بْنُ حُبَيْشٍ الْكَلاَعِيُّ عَنْ مَعْدَانَ بْنِ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ الْيَعْمَرِيِّ قَالَ
قَالَ لِي أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ أَيْنَ مَسْكَنُكَ قُلْتُ فِي قَرْيَةٍ دُوَيْنَ حِمْصَ فَقَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ مَا مِنْ ثَلاَثَةٍ فِي قَرْيَةٍ وَلاَ بَدْوٍ لاَ تُقَامُ فِيهِمُ الصَّلاَةُ إِلاَّ قَدِ اسْتَحْوَذَ عَلَيْهِمُ الشَّيْطَانُ فَعَلَيْكُمْ بِالْجَمَاعَةِ فَإِنَّمَا يَأْكُلُ الذِّئْبُ الْقَاصِيَةَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Sūwayd b. Naṣr
- ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak
- Zāʾidah b. Qudāmah
- al-Sāʾib b. Ḥubaysh al-Kalāʿī
- Maʿdān b. Abū Ṭalḥah al-Yaʿmarī
"Abu Ad-Darda said to me: 'Where do you live?' I said: 'In a town near Hims.' Abu Ad-Darda said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "There are no three people in a town or encampment among whom prayer is not established, but the Shaitan takes control of them. Therefore, stick to the congregation, for the wolf eats the sheep that strays off on its own." (One of the narrators (As Sa'ib) said: "The congregation means the congregational prayer."
Notes
قَالَ السَّائِبُ يَعْنِي بِالْجَمَاعَةِ الْجَمَاعَةَ فِي الصَّلاَةِ
machine translationAl-Sā'ib said: "By 'the congregation' he means the congregation in prayer."
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
| Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyá b. Sharaf al-Nawawī | Sound Chainin سنن النسائي, p. 847 | hadithunlocked |
| al-Albani | Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Maghlaṭay
سند صحيح
machine translationThe chain (isnād) is sound (ṣaḥīḥ).
in سنن النسائي, p. 847
Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 547Musnad Ahmad 21711Musnad Ahmad 27514Sahih Ibn Hibban 2101al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 765al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 900
Narrators
- Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 32 AH, also said: after Ṣiffīn, the correct view is that he died in ʿUthmān's caliphateأَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِصحابي جليلصريح في السماع
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 61 AH, and: 80 AHمَعْدَانَ بْنِ أَبِي طَلْحَةَ الْيَعْمَرِيِّثقةعن
- acceptable (maqbūl)السَّائِبُ بْنُ حُبَيْشٍ الْكَلَاعِيُّمقبولحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a man of the Sunnah (ṣāḥib sunnah)d. 160 AH, or 161 AH, or 163 AHزَائِدَةَ بْنِ قُدَامَةَثقة ثبت ، صاحب سنةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخيرأنبأنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AHسُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍثقةأخبرنا
- the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AHالنَّسَائِيُّالحافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Ḥāshiyat al-Suyūṭī on Tirmidhī
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī
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